Right Here Right Now

Zusatztext Jabari Asim The Village Voice Ellis again proves himself a deft and fearless farceur. Right Here! Right Now shows that Ellis can still slash with a swift! savage wit. Informationen zum Autor Trey Ellis has been a professional novelist and screenwriter for eleven years and is the author of Platitudes and Home Repairs. He and his wife live in Santa Monica, California. Klappentext Written by the author of "Platitudes" and "Home Repairs, " this wickedly irreverent exploration of late 20th-century impulses toward self-improvement is told from the perspective of a charming playboy who renounces his life as a successful motivational speaker and becomes the guru of a cult-like group. Chapter 1 May 15th Until I think up a better system, we'll do it like this. I'll play the recording of the day's lecture on the little boom box here in my hotel room, hovering over the pause tab to chime in with edits, additions, and clarifications. I wish there were a way to directly patch the boom box right into you, Mr. Microcassette Recorder, but I don't see any extra holes on you. Anyway, the sound quality should certainly be good enough for a transcript. I want this next book to dig deeper than the last two, to really give my fans -- my follow -- I want to give the people that buy my books and audiotapes a better sense of Ashton Robinson the man. They'll buy the book and make it a best-seller like the first two, almost no matter what I put in it, so I might as well stretch out this time and give them a few surprises. I get a sense from so many of their letters that they think of me as being as divorced from their reality as Santa Claus. Wouldn't it be nicer if they just thought of me as their faraway friend? The one who left their hometown and made good, but who's still there for them when they're needed? So, along with the transcripts of the lectures I'm delivering these days, I'll be throwing in behind-the-scenes moments of my everyday life. At least for this first draft, that is. I'll have plenty of time to edit later. This morning's lecture was a variation on the one I gave last year in Maui, but I think this one had a tad more zing. [Sound of cassette player buttons clacking, then very loud calypso music. Robinson curses unintelligibly. One minute, forty-five seconds of silence before the recording of the lecture.] -- The DeHavilland Otter, dropping nose-first toward the six hundred meters of runway, the second-shortest in the Caribbean, scared the dozen of us pleasantly until a shrill alarm sounded that I would later learn was the indicator of a stall. But you didn't need to know its exact function to realize that it was trying to tell us something extremely important. Suddenly, the humorous anecdote about this tiny and funny-looking prop-driven plane that I was at that moment revising in my head to relate to you now exploded into the headline of a small article on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News, my local paper... -- Then, just as suddenly, the heavy plane bounced itself upward to level, then again descended, less steeply now, and we soon touched Tarmac with a happy bleat from the tires, then an angry whinnying engine yell of reverse. The family of bathers knee deep in the pretty water at the beach just off the runway's far end closed their open mouths, and the videotaping father lowered his camera, seemed almost disappointed -- visions of money and a free trip for all to Rescue 911's production facilities in Orlando when they aired our crash seemed to have swelled within him, then left just as suddenly, as we safely rolled to a stop. Even our copilot clapped, I think... -- That is just the sort of experience I make myself have. Let me repeat, make myself have. Now, of course, you are all thinking, Did he will the plane to stall? Did he telepathically increase the w...

Product details

• Authors: Trey Ellis
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780684859842
• ISBN: 978-0-684-85984-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general